Oba-La-La - Sergio Mendes

IN MEMORIAM SERGIO MENDES

Liberdade & Democracia

FRAGA

 

Patriota

FANI LOSS

 

BRAZILIAN LEGEND MILTON NASCIMENTO, STILL DREAMING IN HARMONY

 

 

 Mat Snow

A CULT HERO in the Anglophone
world but a giant in Brazil, at 81 Mil-
ton Nascimento is just four months
younger than one of his inspirations Paul Mc-
Cartney – Abbey Road is a particular favourite,
he tells MOJO. Debuting on 33rpm in 1967,
his own catalogue is similarly classic-packed.

His delightful new album Milton + esperanza
spalding, not only boasts a sensational version
of A Day In The Life, but such stellar guests
as Paul Simon, Dianne Reeves, Lianne La
Havas and Shabaka Hutchings. From early on
Nascimento has attracted jazz
and jazz-adjacent A-listers;
as myriad stars have found,
to hear him is to love him. The respect and
affection is mutual.

“Some of the biggest dreams I realised in
my career were because of Wayne [Shorter]
and Herbie [Hancock],” he tells MOJO.
“In the late 1960s I met Herbie at Marcos
Valle’s house in Rio, and when he saw me
playing, he recorded several of my songs.
A few years later, Wayne was in Brazil with
Weather Report and watched the show
Clube Da Esquina. In 1974, Wayne gave
me one of the greatest gifts of my life,
recording Native Dancer. Wayne and Herbie
are my blood brothers.”

He has an unmistakable singing voice
ranging up to ethereal falsetto – “in my
childhood head, only women sang,” he says,
“Ray Charles’s Stella By Starlight changed
all that” – and a no less signature way with a
tune, as his wistful, philosophical songs float, 

flutter and trill just above life's adversities a la 

Marvin Gaye. Yet he is inspired rather than
stiffled by colaborations. Having worked with
the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Carlos Santana and
Earth, Wind & Fire, he seems to bring out the
inner Milton in everyone he plays with, even
Duran Duran, whose 1993 song Breath After
Breath he co-wrote and performed on.

Friendship is key, he explains. Adopted by
a musical white couple who’d employed his
mother as a maid, Nascimento grew up in tiny
Três Pontas in Minas Gerais, deep in south-
eastern Brazil. Energised
by the bossa nova boom
spearheaded by Tom Jobim,
João Gilberto, Sérgio Mendes
and Elis Regina, as well as The
Beatles, he and friends would
perform covers of Brazilian
and foreign hits played by
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
radio stations which barely
made it through the Serra da
Mantiqueira mountain range.

When these transmissions’
harmonies were inaudible,
he’d make up his own, his
harmonic gift a musical
mutation inspired by creative
necessity and over the years
embellished by orchestral and
choral arrangements.

Yet for all his diversity over
the decades, his early songs
remain core repertoire, with
1967’s Outubro, as in his
birth month October, revis-
ited on the new album. “This
song is part of my beginning as
a national artist. My partner,
Fernando Brant, wrote the
lyrics and it was the second
song we wrote together,” he
says. “It’s a song that talks
about a kind of rebirth.”

MOJO

I Fought The Law - The Crickets

I fought the law and the law won

 

Contracheque igual à Rua do Catete

 

 

MARIO BAGG

 

Bronski Beat, The Knocks - Smalltown Boy (feat. Perfume Genius) [

You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies | Palestinian territories

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 "Birding – an outdoor pursuit involving a camera or binoculars – would seem a high-risk activity in the West Bank. Yet enthusiasm for the hobby has been growing in the occupied territories in recent years.

For Shuaibi, it offers solace amid the violence. His ambition, he says, is to organise an exhibition to show the biodiversity of Palestine.

“I want to show the world this is not just a country of war. It’s not just death, bombings and killings. There are people who are interested in wildlife, even when nothing is available to them,” he says. “There is life here. And we love life.”

Positioned between Africa, Europe and Asia, this region is a bottleneck and an important stopover for hundreds of migratory species travelling between their wintering grounds and breeding sites."

read report by MARIA VIDAL

‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies | Palestinian territories | The Guardian

Vai ser quente!

AROEIRA

 

Um retrato da desigualdade brasileira

 

 

"Quem vive nesse prédio vê pela janela o que o outro não tem. A indiferença é o que sustenta a desigualdade. Em uma dessas imagens, o primeiro plano da fotografia é um varal com roupas secando. Atrás, a favela. Ao fundo, em último plano, prédios altos, envidraçados – classificados como de luxo. É uma imagem que poderia ter sido feita em qualquer cidade do país.

Entretanto, quero falar das roupas penduradas naquele varal na favela. É uma corda e há umas doze ou treze peças de roupas. Essas roupas nos contam que no barraco mora uma família de seis pessoas: Seu Renato, dona Ana e quatro filhos."

leia texto de Nilza Valeria Zacarias Nascimento

Um retrato da desigualdade brasileira - Le Monde Diplomatique

Para votar em Pablo Marçal...

ARNALDO BRANCO 

 

 

JOTA CAMELO

 

 

AROEIRA

 

 

Adriana Calcanhoto =- Esquadros (Vizcaya Remix)

Eu ando pelo mundo prestando atenção
Em cores que eu não sei o nome
Cores de Almodóvar
Cores de Frida Kahlo, cores

What Will It Take for Hollywood to Grow Up?

 

 

" For decades now, Americans have been living in a period of all-conquering artistic populism; our culture industry has fully absorbed the notion that there is no sin greater than snobbery when it comes to appreciation of music or movies or television. We’ve essentially gotten rid of the divide between children’s and adult entertainment, insisting that it’s perfectly fine — maybe even preferable — to have the same tastes as an adult that you had as a child."

read essay by Freddie deBoer

Elon Musk’s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes

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  "The expert also believes Musk at his core is a man with practically no principles “except whatever will enrich him, and a deep need for attention and validation. He’s been getting the latter in spades from the far right ever since he started on his rightward radicalisation and he’s constructed for himself the world’s largest echo chamber, which will only continue to fuel that.”

The expert added: “It’s worth noting he has rarely, if ever, experienced consequences for his actions, and has found success in attempting to bully reality into conforming with his beliefs.”"

rea d report by Alex Hern

Elon Musk’s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes | Elon Musk | The Guardian

LISBOA

 

O espinhaço mirando seus azuis sem fim

ALVES

 

Sergio Mendes - Mas Que Nada feat. The Black Eyed Peas

IN MEMORIAM SERGIO MENDES

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

I drank the air to be nearer to you
Voices widen through the room
Distant galaxies move
I'm not here for nothing
Music in the walls
You were in the moment
With your life across the chord

Was this always or never before?

Yuval Noah Harari: What Happens When the Bots Compete for Your Love?

 

 "In a political battle for minds and hearts, intimacy is a powerful weapon. An intimate friend can sway our opinions in a way that mass media cannot. Chatbots like LaMDA and GPT-4 are gaining the rather paradoxical ability to mass-produce intimate relationships with millions of people. What might happen to human society and human psychology as algorithm fights algorithm in a battle to fake intimate relationships with us, which can then be used to persuade us to vote for politicians, buy products or adopt certain beliefs?"

rea the essay by Yuval Noah Harari

 Yuval Noah Harari: What Happens When the Bots Compete for Your Love? – DNyuz

O coach estava certo

MARTINEZ

 

Minha história com Sérgio Mendes |

 

 "Fui parar em Tarzana, LA, perto de onde morava o Francis e em frente a casa de Sérgio Mendes. Na época eram todos músicos amigos em Los Angeles. A música brasileira começava a se definir nos Estados Unidos e Sérgio Mendes protagonizava. Visitei sua casa, aliás, uma enorme casa onde Sérgio estava construindo um estúdio. O curioso é que o marceneiro chefe era nada mais nada menos que o ator Harrison Ford, antes da fama. Sérgio comentou que um rapaz talentoso que queria ser ator estava construindo seu estúdio."

leia cronica de Miguel Paiva

Minha história com Sérgio Mendes | Brasil 247

O Discreto Charme da Tautologia

RICARDO COIMBRA

 

o Cão de Pavlov

MARIO BAGG

 

Billie Eilish covers Michael Jackson 'Bad' for Like A Version

Brasil é fogo!

JBOSCO

 

 

 

FRAGA 

 

 

 

 

AMORIM

]

 

Sérgio Mendes & Bossa Rio - COISA nº 2 - Moacir Santos

IN MEMORIAM SERGIO MENDES

Edison Machado : Bateria
Edson Maciel : Trombone
Hector Costita : Saxofone Tenor
Raul de Souza : Trombone
Sérgio Mendes : Piano
Tião Neto : Contrabaixo

Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

 The family watched the rare 3,500-year-old jar, believed used for wine or oil, being restored at the Hecht Museum

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"Roee Shafir, a restoration expert at the museum, said the repairs would be fairly simple, as the pieces were from a single, complete jar. Archaeologists often face the more daunting task of sifting through piles of shards from multiple objects and trying to piece them together.

Shafir added that the artefacts should remain accessible to the public, even if accidents happen because touching an artefact can inspire a deeper interest in history and archaeology.

“I like that people touch. Don’t break, but to touch things, it’s important,” he said."

 read more>>

Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel | Israel | The Guardian

Enxugando Gelo

AMORIM

 

'Ainda Estou Aqui', de Walter Salles, emociona público durante Festival de Veneza

 

 

 

"O Brasil vivia sob uma ditadura militar, Rubens Paiva tinha sido cassado alguns anos antes e forçado a deixar a política, havia gente exilada, sequestros de embaixadores, violência policial, luta armada. Mas, naquela família barulhenta, cheia de vida, de arte, de encontros, de luz, de sol, a esperança de um Brasil melhor parecia algo latente, que se podia quase tocar."

LEIA RESENHA DE TETE RIBEIRO

 

O bando de Kid Pacheco e Lira Pix

CLAUDIO

 

 

 

KLEBER

GEUVAR

 

 

Teatro da Trindade

 

Tá rolando golpe novo

LAERTE

 

Telecatch Montilla

 

MARIO BAGG

Meu Mundo e Nada Mais - Alaíde Costa & Guilherme Arantes

Eu queria tanto
Estar no escuro do meu quarto
À meia-noite, à meia luz
Sonhando!
Daria tudo, por meu mundo
E nada mais

SYD’S MADCAP FLOORBOARDS SOLD . BUT HOW?

 

 

IAN HARRISON

TAKEN IN Wetherby Mansions in Earl’s Court,
the cover image of his 1970 solo debut
The Madcap Laughs contained intriguing clues.
Did the vase of wilting blooms signify his own
impending drift into endless silence, and the desth 

of the flower power hippie dream?

Barrett, poised like a frozen sprinter, wasn’t
telling, and seemed somehow stuck to
floorboards painted in alternating shades of
of orange and purple.

Part of the striking graphic appeal of the
sleeve – taken by Mick Rock in 1969 – were
these floorboards, which have occupied their
own place in the Barrett mythos ever since.
Now, 55 ywars on, the flooboards have been
found and sold by Newton-le-Willows-based
music specialists Omega Auctions.
Omega Auctions director and co-founder
Paul Fairweather recalls being contacted by
th new owners of Barrett's old flat
years ago. “They were having renovations
done and pulled up the carpets, and discovered
the floorboards pretty much s they
were when Syd originally painted them,”
says Fairweather. “When they realised what
they had, they contacted us.”

He says there are 70 sturdy, hand-painted
oak boards in total, some of them three metres
in length. “I handled a good 50 per cent of the
boards as we uploaded the van, he says of the.
the boards’ transfer to their premises. “You
can see there’s been a life lived on them –
there’s stuff stuck to them, holes where the
nails have been, cigarette burns, plenty of
footprints and plenty of dust. Somebody
painted the ceiling at some point, so there are
specks of paint all over them… if you looked
closely, you could probably piece together the
specific boards matching where
he was actually sat.”

With a list price of five
to 10 thousand pounds, the
auction director admits there
were enquiries from certain
interested parties. By the time
you read this, the floorboards
will have been sold, on July 2:
Fairweather imagines the
buyer will either keep the
boards together and possibly
recreated the floor or sell them
off in smaller increments.

He adds that Omega are
planning further sales, includ-
ing an October auction of items
from Peter Hook’s collection
of Haçienda memorabilia: the
famous club’s original doors,
stained glass and posters will be
included. They’ve previously handled Danny
Baker’s record collection, the Mark E Smith
archives, parts of the BBC’s record collection
and handwritten David Bowie lyrics. A Beatles
fan, Fairweather admits that Fabs-related
lots have their own frisson. In March this year
they sold three 1966 cassettes of audio diaries
made by Ringo for £10,000. “We listened to
those tapes as we were cataloguing them,” he
says. “It was incredible, because other than
ourselves and Ringo, there’s not many people
that will have actually heard them. The weird-
est thing we sold was probably John Lennon’s
tooth in 2011, which came
from his housekeeper and it
did 20 grand.

“It’s why I’m always check-
ing e-mails to see what comes
through,” adds Fairweather,
who says his own taste in music
runs through classic ’60s pop,
post-punk, Madchester and
indie, and admits he does covet
the Haçienda doors. “With
something like the floorbaords
there’s such a thrill because they
are such a fantastic bit of his-
tory. I used to be a collector, but
the hrill for me now is finding
these things and selling them
on behalf of our vendors. That’s
where I get my kicks.”

MOJO

QUINHO

QUINHO

 

Não se cala Marçal

 

 

Pedro Doria

 

 Pablo Marçal nos deu uma aula, neste fim de semana, pela qual deveríamos ser gratos. A Justiça Eleitoral de São Paulo concedeu uma liminar pedindo a suspensão temporária de seus perfis no Instagram, no X, no TikTok, no YouTube, no Discord, além de seu site oficial. O candidato à Prefeitura paulistana entrou, imediatamente, em modo de ação. Criou novos perfis em todas as redes, que já acumulavam milhões de seguidores no domingo. Esses novos perfis estão livres para uso. Não bastasse isso, seus seguidores criaram perfis próprios, em nome do candidato, para distribuir seu conteúdo.

 

 Mas esse movimento de Marçal estava autorizado pelas decisões do tribunal. Ele foi denunciado por pagar para que acompanhem suas lives, as entrevistas que faz, os debates de que participa e para que produzam cortes, vídeos curtos, às vezes com truques de edição, outras não, que tenham a capacidade de viralizar. Esses vídeos não precisam ser publicados nos perfis de Marçal. Em geral, nem são. Mas é um concurso: alguns são selecionados para o perfil oficial, e os escolhidos são premiados com um pagamento. Os outros, não. Na avaliação do TRE houve, nessa ação, abuso de poder econômico, e isso a lei não permite.

A Justiça decidiu, portanto, que os perfis oficiais não podem ser usados durante a campanha por terem acumulado seguidores ao se beneficiar disso. A decisão parece partir do princípio de que o ganho do candidato foi em seguidores e de que, ao impedi-lo de usar aqueles perfis, o problema foi neutralizado. Mas ele não foi banido, tampouco proibido de se manifestar pelas redes. Foi autorizado a criar novos perfis — e os criou. 

odos os que assistiram aos muitos vídeos que Marçal divulgou ao longo do fim de semana tiveram, porém, outra impressão. Acreditam que ele foi censurado. Perseguido pelo sistema. Não bastasse isso, a premissa em que o tribunal se baseou é falha. O que faz um vídeo viralizar não está necessariamente relacionado a ter origem num perfil com muitos seguidores. Em algumas redes, como o TikTok, a relação é até bastante baixa. O ponto é o seguinte: o TRE-SP identificou o que considerou abuso na prática de motivar seguidores a participar de um concurso de cortes com promessa de pagamento. A sanção imposta compensa o desvio?  

Há muito estudo sobre o que os americanos chamam de deplatforming: tirar a plataforma digital de atores políticos, tirar os perfis de certas redes. Os perfis do ex-presidente Donald Trump no Facebook, no Instagram e no então Twitter foram suspensos em janeiro de 2020, logo após a invasão do Capitólio. Ele ainda estava na Casa Branca, e a decisão partiu das próprias empresas. Trump ficou mais de três anos sem os perfis da Meta, o do X foi devolvido pouco depois de Elon Musk comprar a companhia. Não importa. Ele nem voltou ao X, embora possa voltar quando quiser. Não importa porque todas as redes continuam com uma imensa quantidade de conteúdo trumpista, e ele segue com altíssimas chances de chegar à Casa Branca novamente. Não fez diferença. Será uma eleição difícil para ambos os candidatos, mas não ter perfis oficiais parece ter tido efeito irrelevante na capacidade de Trump se comunicar pelas mídias sociais.

Os estudos apontam para resultados que não são óbvios. Sim, tirar das redes os responsáveis por desinformação diminui o problema. Mas tirar políticos com o perfil de Marçal, Jair Bolsonaro ou Trump das grandes redes tem efeitos mais ambíguos. O resultado, em geral, é animar mais seus seguidores. Provocar migração para outros perfis ou atiçar o crescimento de comunidades em ambientes digitais mais difíceis de controlar, onde a desinformação é pior. Há indícios de que aumenta a radicalização do movimento, aglutina mais o grupo. Consolida mais opiniões.

Essa é a história que a extrema direita conta no mundo. Já tratamos disso aqui. É uma história de perseguição: “Nós representamos o povo e combatemos uma máquina que impede o país de dar certo”. Uma máquina que opera nas entranhas do Estado, representando interesses obscuros, e bloqueia a ascensão do povo. Bolsonaro conta essa história, Nikolas Ferreira, Trump. Todos. Quando a Justiça tira os perfis do ar, confirma para os eleitores e para os que simpatizam com os candidatos do autoritarismo que essa máquina existe e de fato os persegue.

Pode parecer contraintuitivo, mas a decisão do TRE-SP poderá servir de propaganda para Marçal.

O GLOBO

 

ilustração MARCELO

 

Young Fathers - 'I Saw'

I want your shield
I want your weapon
Gimme that bulletproof vest
And don't forget I'm not susceptible to your nonsense
I'm a winner (when people forget you)

Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln - Lonesome Lover

PORTUGAL

 

Tatame do Twitter

GILMAR

 

 

 

National Kid

MARIO BAGG

 

O recuo forçado do Congresso

 

Rodrigo Ogi - Rotina

Mantém a calma, chapa
Que essa criaca chakra massacra
Não dê mais um murro em ponta de faca
Encolhe as garras, leão de chácara
Nesse momento a ira não cala
Então logo eu tive que dopá-la
Pois ela quando nasce esparrama pelo chão
Mas também quando ela dorme
Alivia o coração

EX-X

 

BRUNO AZIZ

 

 

THIAGO LUCAS

 

 

 

BRUNO AZIZ

 

 

Amen (feat. Damien Sneed and Chorale Le Chateau) - Wynton Marsalis

Will an Oasis reunion be a success? Definitely. Will it be worth it? Maybe

 

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"Back then, it felt like a rush of sneering vocals, distorted guitars that were equal parts Slade and the Sex Pistols circa Never Mind the Bollocks and tunes that seemed undeniable and immediately familiar, sometimes because you did actually already know them. Now, I find it weirdly moving. The cocktail of oddly wistful, melancholy lyrics and melodies and the seething, barely contained frustration and aggression in their delivery sounds like a perfect evocation of a desire for escape, for something better than the circumstances in which the songs’ narrators find themselves, undercut by uncertainty: they sound like songs about loudly expressed big plans made by people unsure whether they have the wherewithal to pull them off. I also suspect a certain nostalgia has potentiated my view of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’s epic closer Champagne Supernova. Nearly 30 years later, it sounds like the 90s equivalent of the rash of celebratory, elegiac songs that documented the waning of the glam rock era – Mott The Hoople’s Saturday Gigs, T Rex’s Teenage Dream, Slade’s How Does It Feel – which seems pretty exalted company to keep."

more in the artice by ALEXIS PETRIDIS

Will an Oasis reunion be a success? Definitely. Will it be worth it? Maybe | Oasis | The Guardian

‘I couldn’t believe it was my son who did it’: boy, 4, smashes bronze age jar in Israel museum

 

"A rare bronze age jar – its history stretching back at least 3,500 years – had long graced the entrance of the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, offering visitors a closeup look at an intact artefact believed to predate the biblical King David and King Solomon.

That is, until it was accidentally smashed by a four-year-old earlier this week."

 read more>

‘I couldn’t believe it was my son who did it’: boy, 4, smashes bronze age jar in Israel museum | Israel | The Guardian